You’re kidding me…40,000 miles? It seemed like I hit 10,000 only yesterday. If you told me when I bought my 650r three years ago that I would ride 15,000 miles a year, I would have called you crazy. But here I am, and maybe I’m the crazy one.   If you don’t feel like reading, [...]

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I’m not sure if this is something to be proud of… I cringe whenever I watch this video. The video is a direct window into a former self. A younger self, a naive self…a stupid self. It’s a reminder that we all have to start somewhere. I receive mostly negative comments about this video on [...]

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance combines two of my passions: motorcycles and philosophy. I woke up that day anxious to work on my motorcycle only to realize that I lent my tools to a friend. So I finished the book over coffee and a bagel on a lazy afternoon. I don’t have much [...]

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View Larger Map I apologize for the non-motorcycle content (I like to keep the blog focused), but once again I find that the organizers of a race with 30,000 participants can’t spend a half hour to put up the route in the best mapping site out there. So I poked around in Google Earth and [...]

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I like picking out banner images that try and capture the essence of what this site is about, but I’m often torn between one image and another. Why choose? So I cycle through them randomly. I got the idea from Keep the Rubber Side Down. I’m not sure if Rick does it automatically or manually, [...]

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